LANCE CORPORAL STEWART CULLETON. looking for info

[Bob Carriere]

....area code 613......

If you give me more details of the lake in question I can try to find the information for you......

Boob

[rogerculleton]

thanks for all the info, i got cut off on friday and could not get back on this site until now. i'll be in st james on monday so i'll pick up a copy of that book" a place of honour" i i also heard theres a evans rapids named after my grandmothers brother bob.
what part of mb was your uncle from karman.

Hi Roger,

Yes, the forum has been acting up and causing frustrations with access and such. Sorry you were cut off midstream

If you have a library card maybe the library has copies of the books as well, or they can bring them in from other branches for you. (just another option)

My family/ Uncle Ed Smith is a country boy from Beaconia/Balsam Bay, edging SE corner of Lake Winnipeg, a short drive from Grand Beach and about half hour from Selkirk.

I don't think you've mentioned your relationship to Stewart but if your last name is Culleton as well, then I'm assuming a close relationship. You should be able to get Stewart's service records from National Archives ... do you know about that?

Roger, I just checked my booklet of RWR Manitoba soldiers names extracted from that Place of Honour book and found no Evans, so your Grandmothers brother must have served with another regiment. Would that be WW1 or WW2?

For your information - If WW1 - Archivianet has uploaded a lot of WW1 enlistment papers to online for free viewing, a continuing project, and you can copy/save them to your computer. I just did a search for "Robert Evans" for WW1 as an example and it comes up with 44 entries.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/a...=&interval=100

I went through opening up more than 200 Joseph Smith's to find my grandfathers papers. I hadn't been sure he served until I found them, so it was a great break!

I'll be back as I think of anything that might be helpful to you or if you ask questions people will jump in with answers or try to help. MLU is great for this!!!

Take care.

[rogerculleton]

hi karmen, thanks for that link to archives. i'll have to find more info on bob and then start looking. found ww1 records on john thomas culleton which would be stewerts older brother but nothing on stewert. stewert was my dads uncle.
i spent quite a bit time in balsem bay fishing and duck hunting. dont live to far from there. nice place.

Originally Posted by rogerculleton

hi karmen, thanks for that link to archives. i'll have to find more info on bob and then start looking. found ww1 records on john thomas culleton which would be stewerts older brother but nothing on stewert. stewert was my dads uncle.
i spent quite a bit time in balsem bay fishing and duck hunting. dont live to far from there. nice place.

Hi Roger.

If Stewart was 24 at death in 1944 Normandy then he was born too late to take part in WW1, but you know, I've browsed the WW1 records with all of our family surnames and it's amazing how many relatives I came up with, both maternal and paternal. Wonderful for family history and remembering our fallen family soldiers and what actions etc that they sacrificed their lives in. Sure gives a broader knowledge and appreciation of family. "Old Uncle Joe" suddenly comes to life and has done amazing things, sort of thing : We just so often haven't got a clue about our families individual stories and it's great to learn them!

Even in that booklet, the extractions of Manitoba RWR's geographical places/names, I found relatives. It cleared up a mystery of what had ever happened to my Aunty Annie's first husband (he died of wounds on D-Day after the landing)

Balsam Bay/Beaconia all changing/changed now, although not much difference in the area where we lived, about a mile down a road from the Balsam bay dock. I hope you enjoyed the duckhunting and fishing ... as to fish, one thing I'll always remember is sometimes the awful overpowering stink of dead fish at the beach by Almdals ... eeeeewwwww. But hey, that fish smelled like money and food to the locals

Yes, it is very pretty and peaceful through most of that area still.

Any questions just ask away and someone will try to answer if they can.